this SHIT was EASY AS FUCK to setup why shouldn't i buy a 16TB drive a rasp pie and run my own personal streaming service?

>>105861946 (OP)
plex exists

>>105861982
im not FUCKING PAYING to access my own LOCALLY STORED content plex can go fuck its self

its cuz you need more hard drives

>>105862044
all i want to watch is doctor who south park and star trek and the occasional movie that springs to mind i dont think i need more than 16TB for that

>>105861946 (OP)
because you're GAY

>>105862057
you will understand

>>105861982
>proprietary garbage where you pay to access your own media
kek

>>105862085
well then when i need more storage iill handle it

it's a good time to buy storage rn thank you bezos best time in years all my waiting finally paid off

>>105862006
>>105862087
>t. poorfags

>>105862129
The money I don't spend for Plexshit is money I spend on storage.
Cope.

>>105862129
>t. complete dipshit who pays to access his own storage

>>105862057
Do it. Get them in 1080, most 4K are BADLY upscaled for Star Trek and Doctor Who. But as >>105862085
mentioned, you'll later understand.
Almost bought a 20TB HDD I saw on sale.

>>105861946 (OP)
I run a local server with sonarr, lidarr and jellyfin. It gets all my anime without skipping one, then shokofin organizes it automatically, custom plugin gets jimaku subs and translates automatically with Gemini 2.5 pro, with honorifics, moe and all the good otaku stuff. I also perma host all my good old anime from the past there. And music, I can listen everywhere with symfonium on Android.

>>105862593
naa.
do it my way.
If I watch something, and I don't think to myself "I wanna watch that again sometime", it gets deleted.

>>105861982
>Plex
Fucking retard anon lol

>>105861946 (OP)
you should.

Pay for access to a Plex share

>>105861946 (OP)
there is no reason not to besides not being technically literate enough to do it

>>105861946 (OP)
Exactly. Streaming service cucks can suck your dick.

Jellyfin is great but I can never get it to merge versions in a predictable order, unless it's by resolution. Maybe I'm dumb though

>>105862044
>>105862085
This is the truth. I went from 6TB to 10TB to 24TB now. Gonna get a multi drive and make backups at some point.

>>105863045
lol did the exact same from a shitty office PC now building a NAS

>>105861982
>plex

>>105862057
> all i want to watch is doctor who
I hope not the latest seasons

i don't need more and there's probably stuff i can just delete

>>105863161
yep, found 200GB I could get rid of

>>105862006
>>105862087
you're not paying for access to your own media
(its your media)
(you already have access to it)
you are paying for their web service which serves your media to your users

>>105863686
>you are paying for their web service which serves your media to your users
a wireguard VPN + the Jellyfin app is free and works fine

>>105863704
it sure does anon.

>>105861982
i use plex (bought lifetime pass long before i learned what jellyfin was) but can't really recommend it to others now that they're pay-walling basic shit, like i genuinely can't tell what plex really offers over jellyfin to justify the price.
plex handling remote secure connections automatically is nice, but you could just install ngrok or whatever and it'd take like 20 minutes to work with jellyfin, you don't even need to be all that tech savvy for some of the solutions to that. im not sure what else plex has going for it

>>105861982
This unironycally.
Say no to bad supported open source software done by MUH COMMUNITY THAT HAS OTHER JOBS AND CANT DO SHIT

>>105862129
>>105863704
retard

>>105863442
you monster
i could have saved that

>>105861946 (OP)
You should, but get an N100 mini PC, it's going to cost hardly €20 more than the Pi and it's going to smoke it when it comes to transcoding.

>>105863161
>deleting
just add more drives

>>105863704
>wireguard VPN
that still exposes your IP retard, good VPNs aren't free

>>105864363
to who? it's not connecting to the internet

>>105864363
are you stupid?

>>105861946 (OP)
Many do this, and some even ask you to pay for it. In fairness to the paid ones they will still btfo any typical streaming service, or all of them combined.
>>105861982
I've thought about it just for Kometa.
>>105862657
Based setup
>custom plugin gets jimaku subs and translates automatically with Gemini 2.5 pro, with honorifics, moe and all the good otaku stuff
Qrd on this? Are the anime your grabbing so obscure they don't have official or fansub? Why jimaku as a sub source?

>>105861946 (OP)
>why shouldn't i buy a 16TB drive a rasp pie and run my own personal streaming service?
You should, but maybe use something better than a raspberry pi. There's a lot of functionality in Jellyfin that benefits from decent hardware. You're not going to be able to do transcoding with a raspberry pi, and things like chapter images and trickplay are going to be slow as hell to generate.

>>105864363
plex also exposes your IP

>>105864536
and yes it is actually my remote IP under that censor, not a plex IP

WHAT
YOU DON'T LIKE STREAMING SERVICES?

>>105864363
what do you think the VPN is for exactly, retard?
It's to connect back to your home network so you can stream to your device. That's it.
fucking faggot

>spend years curating large movie and tv show library
>family bitches about how terrible netflix shows are and how they need a million streaming services to watch anything
>extend library to family
>request/watch history is just netflix and marvel slop
>bitching about terrible shows continues, this time with choice paralysis complaints
It's truly painful catering to normies. I think they like complaining more than watching, which explains why the streaming services keep dropping and readding shows.

>>105862006
There's no cost for Plexamp and for media accessed within the LAN.

>>105861946 (OP)
>why shouldnt i
you should
100%

>>105862112
What setup are you buying?

>>105863010
Did you name all of your media files in the manner Jellyfin recommends? They're pretty autistic about it because it's legitimately difficult to tell the difference between a shitload of TV episodes.

if you don't want to expose your IP just use tailscale or one of the alternatives

>>105864363
There's nothing you can do with just an IP address.

>>105861946 (OP)
I already do. The only service I pay for is Spotify since I'm to lazy to gather thousands of tracks and stream it via my home network. I host everything else that I need privately.

>>105865624
I'd probably be in the same boat if I hadn't autistically downloaded or backed up most my music years ago. It's less work to maintain my mp3s and flacs.

>>105865624
>since I'm to lazy to gather thousands of tracks and stream it via my home network
They called me crazy for data hoarding music since high school. Airsonic just werks.

>>105864438
Small program I wrote that fetch subs and translates stuff with context, retiming and other stuff. Because I despise CR and funimation subtitles where they botch and erase meaning on seasonal anime, but I always seek subs from the good Fansubs (usually old ones) instead of ai translation.

>>105865257
some like complaining more than watching
others want to watch the exact same shows over and over and over again forever

Jellyfin media management sucks but if you have a *arr setup like >>105862657 it's perfect
don't stop at a raspi build a full server qt least get something with a good enough chip/gpu for transcoding

>>105865304
Yeah, pretty sure
South Park S05E03 - [1 - Uncensored].mkv
South Park S05E03 - [2 - Censored].mkv
South Park S14E06 - [2 - Censored].mkv
South Park S14E06 - [1 - Uncensored].mkv

>>105861946 (OP)
Why the FUCK doesn't this piece of shit have a simple folder hierarchy viewing mode?
No, that option that ads "folder view" doesn't fucking work, it stops reading files after the first fucking folder.
I don't want all my shit autistically labeled for "muh online database tagging" like normie plex shit.
JUST GIVE ME FUCKING FOLDERS I CAN EASILY LABEL AND NAVIGATE TO

>>105861982
>Hello. It's me again. How much do you need before I can watch my own movies

>>105865716
Damn so gemini 2.5 pro is better at translating than official subbers?
Would you be willing to share this program anon?

>>105865876
You might try out Directory Opus if you don't need to stream it outside your house. Label stuff anything you want.

>>105861946 (OP)
Because I still can't figure out how to get it not to lag when I stream high-quality movies, even in the same LAN network with ethernet cables everywhere.

>>105865876
>it stops reading files after the first fucking folder
No it doesn't. You broke something.

>>105865876
>I don't want any features I just want a folder view
Have you tried just using a file browser instead?

>>105865997
Try disabling transcoding and see if the lag goes away. Network bandwidth almost certainly isn't the issue, but the CPU or GPU in your server might not be powerful enough to do realtime video transcoding.

>>105862044
This. I thought I'd be fine with 12TB and now I'm up to 56TB in my server.

How does this thing work?

>>105866028
Then the media won't play.

>>105861946 (OP)
other then running out of space, there's no reason not to.

>>105865257
Why don't you recommend them shows then, retard. Make them watch anime.

>>105866138
That was definitely your problem then. You have media in a format that your device can't natively play, so Jellyfin is forced to transcode it but you don't have the hardware to do that. Either start using formats compatible with your clients or add hardware so you can transcode properly.

>>105861982
plex is worse

>>105861946 (OP)
do you fucks not have a good pc or something? cant you just iunno put the 16gb drive into your tower and just stream it to your tv? why have a separate setup? i dont get it.

>>105866113
me.... i started with 1TB had that for 12 years.... now 66tb isnt enough

>>105866219
you could install jellyfin or plex onto your main computer and it'll work fine retard
But for people with extra money it's nice to have a low power device that can be on all the time so you don't have extra steps in your ritual

>baaabe fix the TV for me it's not turning on
>you walk all the way to the bedroom to turn on the computer
>you gotta log in again because the session is lost
I'm only two steps in and it's already stupid as fuck

>>105866230
>implying people with extra money turn off their computers
>implying system services don't start on boot

>>105866230
but all those problems could just happen with the little cheap device too lol... i dont ever shut off my pc bro

>>105866237
It's summer it makes the room go hot
>>105866246
not really. you really can just leave the NAS running all the time as long as it's not some crap like QNAP or Synology the next time a root certificate expires past the support period

>>105866255
>implying people with extra money don't have AC

>>105862129
Ok, Moshe

>>105866255
>have spare money on a rasp pi
>cant afford AC somehow

LMAO wtf are you some faggot?

>>105866261
imagine spending money on AC
>>105866291
raspberry pis are gay and not capable of being a NAS despite what shitty hackaday articles might have you believe
the device needs to at least have an intel GPU in it.

>>105861946 (OP)
It's pi not pie, retard

>>105865928
Yeah way better than ""official localizers"" that's for sure, but can't beat a good, passionate fansubber.

>>105866308
A pi can easily be a NAS, which is just a file server. Now, if you need your fileserver to also live transcode random video files into whatever your client needs, then yes its a poor choice.

>>105861982
I run both. Jellyfin is great but won't be available on random GoyVision boxes.

>>105866442
which is what we're doing
also people tend to expect a NAS to perform RAID which a raspberry pi is not going to be able to seriously do. Sure it's a great home lab solution for trying out Ceph or dicking around, but I would not tolerate a NAS operating at crippled raspberry pi speeds for long

>>105862006
works on my machine
>>105862085
this.
>started with plex in 2011
>single 500GB hdd
>ff 2025
>42U rack with multiple servers, redundancies, and backups
>around ~0.5PB
data hoarding and homelabbing is a disease

I've never looked into these things, but I've seen them being mentioned a few times. Is this just a big storage for media? like what's the main reason to use something like this over just slapping one or two hdds on my pc to watch stuff I download on it?

>>105867141
>pay to use your own servers
kek, cuck behavior

>>105862057
based startrek enjoyer

>>105861946 (OP)
because arm is shit and the pi has garbage IO. you should get at least get 2 drive for a mirror

>>105865999
It absolutely does you retarded nigger.
if your media library is set to Folder1, and within it there is Folder2, and within that there is Folder3, it will NOT read any files from Folder3 downward.
>>105866019
I access my shit outside of my home, and I have many music folders that don't fall into their autistic categorical labeling scheme that are practically unusable due to lack of proper folder hierarchy view. Also sorting seasonal anime is a pain in the fucking ass as well, currently using the folder type of "home movies" but Kodi doesn't properly filter out played/unplayed with it.
It's an aggravating shitshow

>>105865262
Plex has NO Local authentication support.
Their "local" authentication is an IP ACL that drops you into a superuser account.

>>105865876
If you're doing it like that, why not just mount the network share?
The entire point of Jellyfin/Plex is it's a media library, it's supposed to manage the media for you.
Also, I literally just dump the folders in there and it works
Media -> anime -> show folder -> files MAYBE in season folders maybe not, it doesn't care
That being said, just use *arr, it does it all for you.

>>105868590
The main issue is seasonal anime...if you use a normal library for it it absolutely cannot sort it and it doesn't even show the fucking filenames so I can see what episode I'm getting ready to watch.
I also like to download various anime OP/ED's and sort them into folders by their respective anime, and it absolutely can't deal with that.
I honestly don't understand why they can't just add in a functional folder hierarchy mode.
I'm away from home frequently and I use my phone/tablet to access jellyfin remotely is the main reason I use it (that and watching/listening shit in my home theater)

>>105861946 (OP)
>a rasp pie
a pi is one of the worst possible devices you can run jellyfin on as the pi doesn't do hardware encoding. it's gonna slow down to a crawl as soon as you run into a format that your player doesn't support.
but yes, you absolutely should keep a jellyfin server. a mini PC with an n100, or even a >2015 laptop with an intel CPU (has quicksync encoder) and/or an nvidia gpu (NVENC) will be a decent choice.

>>105868633
And by seasonal anime I mean currently airing seasons.
Yeah, it works good for completed anime and normie movies/music.
But if you want to do anything a little different it just shits the bed like everything else.

>>105867644
main reason is to have a server.. server is basically a PC but it can be always on. watching movies etc. is only a small part of it... I also have IMMICH so all photos from my phone, my wifes phone, my mothers phone, my fathers phone etc. gets stored on that server and they can acces it at any time over the internet. The idea is that none of us don't pay for cloud storage...

All of the things mentioned here can be installed on you pc. it just has to be on and you are risking all your data if your pc gets infected by a virus.

>>105861946 (OP)
>why shouldn't i buy a 16TB drive a rasp pie and run my own personal streaming service?
You should do that actually

>>105861946 (OP)
The mistake is buying a dead end solution. You should start with at least 16 3.5" bays on an upgradable platform. You'll end up wanting more storage soon.

>>105868653
The Pi is shit even if you are like me and purposely avoiding video transcoding at all costs.

>>105864536
plexcucks eternally btfo

>>105866227
I'm doen to 800GB free on my 100TiB of HDDs, although through z2 i only got 64TiB usable space...

>>105867141
It's a digital disease!

>>105868672
just use shokofin

jellyfin is a massive piece of shit and probably full of security issues

Most people are so mindraped they seriously never even think about having an external JBOD solution that connects to their PC and running Plex/Jellyfin on the PC. Like they go instantly from no media solution to I need a NAS every time.

>>105868653
I used a pi for years, and for the most part it was perfectly fine since I was streaming to capable devices like a Shield or a 4k streaming box. I did recently switch to a N150 though. It was a pain to set up since Debian wouldn't boot and Ubuntu wouldn't install. Ironically Mint installed, but was a huge pain to get transcoding working on. For anyone who wants to go the same route, the issue is likely resolved by a kernal update to enable proper drivers for the N150.

>>105869437
Yeah not like good old proprietary Plex that couldn't have any security issues since you have to pay for it

>>105869554
Explain your proposed solution.

I switched to Jellyfin a few months ago. It is definitely worse than Plex for a local setup, it just lacks polish and you can tell it's made by people with bad programming intuition compared to Plex in everything from the actual media server itself to the Jellyfin clients on devices (these are made by third parties who have no idea what they are doing). The Jellyfin clients are absolutely horrendous, not that Plex is a masterpiece, but it is just amateur level on Jellyfin clients in comparison.

Of course the benefit is you are free from the big bad Plex, so it is somewhat worth it, depending on how free you want to be. And if you are on Apple TV, you can use Infuse as the front-end so it isn't too bad. For remote it is obviously no comparison, use Jellyfin and disregard the above as nobody should support what Plex is doing.

>>105861946 (OP)
what's the point of this? Just download movies on your computer. if you want to watch it on your TV just plug in a USB

>>105869627
It's in my post. Buy an external HDD docking station that connects to your PC and use your PC as the media server. 99% of people don't need a 24/7 NAS as their media server, they can already do that with this one simple trick.

>>105869699
how does it connect?

>>105869792
USB.

>>105869834
Every one of those I've seen are complete shit with low build quality and poor ventilation. It's theoretically a good solution, but I haven't seen anyone do it well. SATA expanders are a good solution, but you can't hang one off of a Pi. I've also seen a thunderbolt product, but it was overp riced.

>>105863704
Nigga I just port forward the ports on my modem, use a free dynamic dns service and letscrypt for the certificate, no need for vpn

>>105869691
I live in Southeast Asia and I run Jellyfin on my server in Europe so my mom and my niece can watch shows I download for them in the US. For all the non tech literate people in your life it turns piracy into a Netflix like experience.

>>105869652
The Jellyfin client on Android TV is fine. I know better than to buy devices running something else.

Kodi is great.

>>105869891
You make some good points. In terms of build quality, the best one I have seen and currently use is DS-SC4B from Sabrent which is very well built except for the jet engine fan that needs to be replaced with a Noctua fan. My drives are usually around 30-33c idle and 37-40c in heavy use depending on how many are running. Another thing about this particular docking station, that is missing for most (if not all) other docks, is that all the HDDs can be individually powered on and off. I have no idea why this isn't standard, but that alone makes it a cut above the rest for me. The including cable is also extremely short and functionality useless, ideally you use your own high quality data cables regardless.

I also recommend using a PCIe USB Hub to isolate the docking station from motherboard USB. My reasoning here is largely speculative but I have found that if you have 2.4GHZ dongles and USB devices that either deliver active power or
active transfer data they interfere and things go apeshit. At first I thought this was at the physical connection level and spacing them would help, but it seems to be related to how the signals are handled on the chips inside the motherboard.

>>105862057
I'm about to start my third TNG rewatch, after my second ENT, fifth VOY and third DS9. Mildly interested in Strange New Worlds (as far as nu-trek goes, it wasn't that bad. On par with ENT I would say). Oh btw I just use plex on an old laptop (250gb) + apple tv lol.

>>105869608
one is made by professionals, the other made is by fat FOSS pedophiles. though arguably, the fat FOSS pedophiles will care a lot about security too but i expect the professionals to do it better

>>105870548
The thing about FOSS is security is your problem. It's not the devs fault if you run it as root and expose it directly to the internet.

>>105870548
>professionals
citation needed

>>105870581
a tryhard foss guy, woah... you dont say???

what if for example, the average user is not the GOD OF COMPTUERS like you are and has shit to do other than setting up complicated networking to use the fat pedophile software safely? for you the 300 lb poweruser its a trivial task obviously, but im saying for people that have jobs and obligations other than in their damp depression tinkercave all day every day in perpetuity?

fucking autistic homo lmfao

any jellyfin users know how good it is for Roku devices?
I'm using minidlna currently, but the builtin dlna player on some devices is pure shit.

>>105870548
based on my experience:
trannies and pedophiles > "professionals"

unless professional is heavily qualified on companies with competent software engineering (extremely rare), I reject your opinion.

>>105861946 (OP)
You should.

>>105870617
>jobs and obligations
Being a Linux sysadmin is my job. I literally learned how to do it by setting up servers for piracy. I also learned what not to do by breaking into other people's machine for fun. But when I was a newbie myself I did a lot of dumb shit and left my server totally exposed to the public in retarded ways.

But let's get real for a second. It's not like FOSS is the only thing that can get you assfucked if you make configuration mistakes.

>>105870626
It's decent, the roku client has had a lot of updates recently. A 4K RokuTV works very well with it now

>>105862006

You’ve never owned a boombox, have you.

>>105862057
All those things in 4k will be getting you close

>>105871742
>star trek, south park, doctor who
>4k
Most of the good material for those wasn't even produced for 1080p.

>>105870652
I just setup my own Nextcloud server to keep tax docs and family photos on. What am I not thinking of that will wreck my noob ass?

>>105871863
Star Trek was on film and South Park remade all the old material in HD

am I supposed to delete ffmpeg or something? how do I stop this shitware from transcoding media?

>>105872288
Forbid each user you add from using video transcoding in the settings. Leave audio transcoding on because it can actually be useful. Don't stream with your admin account.
>t. was also frustrated with this

>>105872312
>Forbid each user you add from using video transcoding in the settings
wtf?

>>105862112
Wat I checked like 3 days ago and it was still like $107 for a 10tb when I got that for $76 like 2 years ago

>>105872316
There's a box to check or uncheck. I turn that shit off. Also for the best results keep your library strictly H264. Don't download weird shit like interlaced TV recordings.

>>105872335
>library strictly H264
my library is basically all DVD rips so I just stuck with H.264.

well anyways, was able to deploy it as:

[Unit]
Description=Jellyfin Media Server

[Container]
User=minidlna
Group=minidlna
Image=ghcr.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
Volume=/var/lib/srv/media:/media:ro,Z
Volume=jellyfin_cache.volume:/cache
Volume=jellyfin_config.volume:/config
PublishPort=127.0.0.1:8096:8096

[Service]
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target


seems to be working.

>>105862057

>>105861982
i rean plex for 2 years and it was nothing but problems. jellyfin just werks.

>>105861946 (OP)
because their web client is godawful. Last time I checked it literally couldn't even seek in videos without the subtitles going way out of sync.

>>105865304
I'm new to all of this home server stuff, how would I rename all of my media files without my torrent client going apeshit cause it can find them anymore? I understand Jellyfin needs a folder structure and a naming pattern for the files but again, qbittorrent is gonna go bananas cause "I CAN'T FIND THE FILES FOR THIS TORRENT ANON" when seeding

>>105870548
>needs to throw buzzwords in like a schizo election tourist to try and justify paying for access to his own media
Do you actually exist and interact with other human beings? Do you act like this irl? Is it not embarrassing?

>>105873784
>schizo
>election tourist
sounds like buzzwords to me
plex is free on my machine. you should maybe take your meds? you are being a fail cringe right now

>>105873934
How's that local user management working for you?
Oh, I forgot it doesn't exist

>>105873952
huh
there are users and what would it matter anyway? the best part is plex actually works while jellyfin (i call it jellycringe) doesnt

>>105873977
>Jellyfin doesn't work
Idk man, works pretty well for me, maybe you're just retarded?
Plex literally states on their website that there is no facility for local only user accounts, you either use a Plex account or have to use shitty IP based ACLs that just dump all users into a super admin account.

>>105861982
Plex turned to hot garbage and broke their mobile apps instantly after doubling the price of a plex pass and tying it to fucking port forwarding. I'm replacing that trash with Jellyfin once I have the spare time.

>>105862129
Hope you like paying for a broken as fuck app and jeetslop code running on your home network.

>>105874000
tell me how you get no pussy without telling me you how you get no pussy

deleting an item from a playlist doesnt even reflect its delection in jellyfin, and on top of that it deletes the media from the hard drive. its durgasoft but hey man im glad you like it. needing a foss media platform and using linux is sus af but good for you bud. just ummm... stay away from the youngins, would ya?

>>105870548
>professionals
That's not how you spell jeets.

>>105874076
Jessie what the fuck are you saying
You sound like a fucking luddite jfc
What the fuck are you doing on /g/ you sound like you should be posting in r/windowshelp

>>105874099
what im saying is, dont nobody oughta leave you around kids unattended.

>>105874147
install Gentoo

Ive been ripping blurays. I cant get make mkv to work on linux so i run it on my rog ally and smb over it to my server then download it on my gaming px to convert to av1

>>105862006
Everything Jellyfin can do is supported by free Plex. You pay for additional features like:
>Remote connection without exposing your IP
>Sharing libraries with users (and not having to create local accounts)
>Skip Intros/Credits
Granted the Download is bullshit though. You can still do it with a cracked client.

I kinda want to make a pirate server and sell subscriptions. How bad of an idea is this?

>>105874542
Ask Omi in a Hellcat

>>105874266
Yeah I don't need those features, why would I pay for proprietary software that will increase prices regularly ?

>>105874266
>>Remote connection without exposing your IP
>>Sharing libraries with users (and not having to create local accounts)
>>Skip Intros/Credits
jellyfin does all that for free

>>105861982

>>105861946 (OP)
>EASY AS FUCK

>No folder structure for OVAs with Anime within each season, its either under a "specials" folder outside the season folders that almost never gets metadata, or at the bottom of the season as a clip.
>Pic related, god forbid you have movies and shows in the same library. Because TV shows never have accompanying movies, and shifting between two libraries for the same IP is never annoying.
>Audio and subtitles keep going out of sync even when opening the video file directly is fine

That said, I'd still rather use Jellyfin over Plex.

>>105867141
Would you mind sharing a list of your tv shows?

>>105861946 (OP)
>click bookmark
>type name
>anime starts playing
that's what "easy as fuck" looks like

>>105867658
that's generally how it works anon, electricity costs money...

plex works for the most part. i have a nas that streams plex to a smart tv. but some videos wont play on that tv that way but plays fine on my pc. not sure why.

>>105876094
https://pastebin.com/T3gHBhPz

>>105876455
Thank you so much!

>>105861946 (OP)
Is this what I want if I want to watch videos from another PC on my LAN? Can I just make a NAS and do the same?

>>105876235
Nice strawman attempt. Unfortunately even that simple strawman won't work with me, I have solar for years so I don't pay electricity...

>>105861946 (OP)
Because it won't be able to handle Dolby Vision Profile 7

>>105876509
yes a regular nas can do this if you just want to play the file in a media client.

>>105867141
What app is that

>>105876887
Would that be easier?

>>105876963
plex dash

>>105876966
depends on how many clients you have. in my view its pretty trivial to set up jellyfin. you can run it in docker and point it to your media, and then any computer on your network just goes to its webui and it runs. but setting up samba/nfs is also trivial. raw file share is probably easier to trouble shoot if something goes wrong.

>>105876753
>I don't pay electricity...
but you did pay for batteries, pvs, charge controllers, inverters, wiring... how much did you spend on your solar setup? how much per year does it cost to maintain it? could it run a 2.4kW homelab 24/7?

>>105876998
It would just be me really. Been looking into nas and samba stuff already, but wasn't sure if jellyfin would be better for videos.
Thanks for the help.

>>105865716
>>105864438
Cartoon-watching faggots jfc

>>105865997
It's the device you're using to stream with. Get an AM6B+ and thru it

>>105876455
Fucking trash holy fuck

I want my jellyfin to access the internet for TMDB and IMDB metadata, but, I don't want there to be any IP leaks and so on. What do I need to do, or is this good to go?

>>105877285
why would there be any IP leaks?

I want to set up my jellyfin server so I can access it when I'm on Italy next week. What do I have to do anons? Do I have to go into my router and all that?

>>105872758
Dang that image looks crips, how much size and duration?
>>105877346
I figure you have jellyfin installed already, right? Just port-fordward from your isp modem and try like with phone mobile data if you can reach your server
Use a dynamic dns service to keep your ip updated, your modem probaby support that too.

>>105864591
They always "Original" content where humans always are black, mexican, asian and white.

>>105869940
How do you do this, anon?

>>105877379
2.3gb and 50 mins.

>>105873672
servarr suite does this automatically. you can also just do symlinks yourself.

>>105877379
I can't do anything with or to my ISP modem. It doesn't see my LAN and is inaccessible via the browser. Are you referring to my router??? I have an ISP modem to router setup.

can i run jellyfin in a vm and mount the external harddrive to it?

>>105877409
VPNs let you download anything from anywhere. Jellyfin can be exposed to the internet and anyone with credentials can log in and stream. its trivial.

>>105874542
Extremely. All of the fair use defense for piracy is predicated on self use. As soon as you start distributing you might as well kiss your ass goodbye.

>>105877627
probably, depending on what VM software/hypervisor you use. most let you do usb passthrough or mount a host drive into the guest.

>>105877634
so to secure it, just have a very strong password? I want to be treated like a retard and given step by step instructions on how to achieve this. Where can I get that?

>>105877379
buy a domain and use a reverse proxy.

>>105877691
Fuck off faggot

>>105877064
Nice try you got most stuff wrong. Keep at it.

>>105865716 (Me)
I don't watch cartoons >>105877157

>>105877346
I use tailscale for this since I'm behind CGNAT

Have an issue where Jellyfin can't properly set the metadata for the second season of anime shows. seems to work fine for western shows bit i don't know why. will recognize the video file, but never have the proper name or other metadata info like actors and the like. For the first season it's fine.

For reference, I use the Vargy releases on nyaa for anime. For shows I get on 1337x it works fine. Any fix?

>>105879048
USE SHOKO

I love jellyfin but for media management it is ass
use shokofin, sonarr, radarr whatever for media management of your stuff

>>105877346
caddy
https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/hotycl/windows_and_caddy_v2_reverse_proxy_guide/
>in b4 >reddit

>>105865624
https://www.stallman.org/spotify.html
>Any system of publication that is based on discouraging or impeding people from keeping their own copies, and making and sharing copies, is a scheme to divide people, and thereby subjugate them. Spotify is one such.

>>105861946 (OP)
It really is super easy to set up, I have it running on an N100 mini PC that uses an Rpi 5 with an NVME attached as a NAS to store shows.
Honestly Plex is useless now, Jellyfin just works assuming you're using any sort of vaguely modern hardware made in the last 5-10 years for codec support.

I'm on Linux and this shit is asking me to set up SSL certification (crucifixion) to allow remote connections. What do I this?

>>105881306
https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/swag/

>>105881811
damn I need to start from scratch. I know nothing about dockers and so on and probably should just learn them. thanks anon. long journey ahead of me.

>>105881306
Letscrypt nigga

Did they fix the desyncing subtitles yet? Can't watch my damn cartoons. Just skipping the OP will significantly desync my shit.

>/g/
>half the thread can't into self-hosting
This board really is Consumer Technologies & AI Porn

>>105881903
It's pretty straightforward. You install docker, save and customize the compose file and run docker compose on that file. It makes setting up stuff like this simpler and easier reproducible.

>>105879480
>USE SHOKO
Shoko is fucking shit. I just recently tried to convert a library over to it.
>took over 2 weeks to download metadata from anidb
>fucked up a bunch of file associations
>no way to manually delink them and then manually link them to correct episode
Horrible software.

>>105861946 (OP)
Emby, my friend

>>105882618
Skill issue, unironically

>>105883066
No not skill issue. Your shitting web interface has no way to do it. Your "native" application with badly designed UI has no fewer than 3 links to a discord channel and no clear way to do it. You website has no documentation. I'm not "joining the discord" for help either.

It's shit and there is absolutely no reason to run yet another daemon just for anime when I can simply get the metadata myself with a jellyfin plug-in direct from anidb. Your shitty software can't handle anything that isn't in the anidb database either. Which is more than half my collection of shows. Since they're either self encodes that aren't in the anidb database yet because the mods are 10 years behind (and fucking lazy) on my submissions or I haven't shared them to the public.

I operate a server serving over 30 users now hosting over 6,000 series/movies from both jellyfin and plex. I know what the fuck I'm doing.

Your software is garbage and I'm upset with myself that I got tricked into trying it and let it consume over 20% of my server's CPU for over 3 weeks.

>>105883122
Hard seething in this blessed afternoon.